The best Quotes by Irene O'Donnell

In all the world, violent men are the easiest to deal with.

Grace: "I had the phone put in. It's in the back."
Tommy: "If we knew someone else who had a phone, we could call them."

Freddie: "You think I can't handle Tommy Shelby?"
Polly: "You can't. I am having trouble these days and I'm twice the man you are."

Freddie Thorne: "What kind of a list would have the name of a communist and the name of a bookmaker side by side?"
Thomas Shelby: "Perhaps it's a list of men who give false hope to the poor."

Grace Burgess: "You think I am a wh-re?"
Tommy Shelby: "Everyone's a wh-re, Grace. We just sell different parts of ourselves."

May: "May Carleton. I breed racehorses and train them. What is it you do?"
Thommy: "I rarely answer questions is what I do."

The soldier's minute. In a battle that's all you get. One minute of everything at once. And anything before it nothing. Everything after, nothing. Nothing in comparison to that one minute.

You can never tell with men. They go for whoever their dcks point at and there's no changing their minds.

There's only one thing that could blind a man as smart as you, Tommy. Love.

Freddie: "If you want me out of Birmingham, it'll have to be in a wooden box."
Polly: "You lay a hand on our Ada, I'll put you in a wooden box myself!"

Men and their d-cks never cease to amaze me. John, Lizzie Stark never did a day's work vertical.
Brave is going where no man has gone before. And with Lizzie Stark, John, that's not what you'll be doing.

Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent... leave that to me.

Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe.

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

Dizzy: "My mother always told me that violence doesn't solve anything."
Jean Rasczak: "Really? I wonder what the city founders of Hiroshima would have to say about that."
Carmen: "They wouldn't say anything. Hiroshima was destroyed."
Jean Rasczak: "Correct. Naked force has resolved more conflicts throughout history than any other factor. The contrary opinion, that violence doesn't solve anything, is wishful thinking at its worst. People who forget that always die."

There were not so many physical threats that could not be countered with a decent hammer.

Whisky's good proofing water. Tells you who's real and who isn't.

You don't parley when you're on the back foot. We'll strike a blow back first.

All religion is a foolish answer to a foolish question.

Sometimes it lasts all night. And I lie here and I listen to the shovels, and the picks against that wall there. And I pray the sun will come up at the curtains before they break through. No, I don't pray. I hope. And sometimes it happens. The sun beats them. But mostly the shovels beat the sun.

Tommy: "I'll have some men watch her house 'til the danger passes."
Polly: "'Til the danger passes. That'll be the bloody day."

You have your mother's common sense, but your father's devilment. I see them fighting. Let your mother win!

Polly: "Six."
John: "Six what?"
Polly: "Six questions since you walked through that door. Soon you'll have to start being the man with the answers."
John: "Why?"
Polly: "Seven."

You have to be as bad as them above in order to survive.

The end of a rope has been this man's destiny since the night he was born.

We will take them before last night's beer turns to piss.

The Peaky Blinders. The vicious, merciless gangs who blind those who see and cut out the tongues of those who talk.

You and I are opposites but also just the same. Like an image in a mirror. We hate people and they in turn hate us. And fear us.

Freddie: "Are you mad?"
Ada: "Yeah. Mad as hell with all of them."

America, Freddie. They've already had their revolution, you won't have to bother.

You see, ladies? When you're out with a Blinder, you don't have to queue.

Never give power to the big man.

Lip: "Hey, whoa. You really think they deserve your hard-earned money for that service?"
Frank: "Dine and dash?"
Lip: "Bite and bolt."
Frank: "Eat it and beat it?"

What can I say, once you go white, you always stay tight. Hey, I think I just insulted myself.

Frank: "What did they get you for again?"
"Beat my ex-wife to death with a telephone."
Frank': "Cordless or landline?"